It’s a bump stock and works by allowing the gun to slide back and forth using recoil energy. The trigger finger is effectively held on and your semi auto now becomes a very quick firing semi auto, basically a bloody auto (which are illegal).

Yeah I understand the concept, I just meant at a range shooting slowly and carefully, not sure it would matter. Having never actually seen a bump stop I’m not sure I’d have recognised it. Like I said, I can’t imagine it was.

He probably had one though, he was quite into things like extended magazines, he had a ppk with a silencer on etc true gun nut.

Well to be honest it was Florida. Almost everyone I knew, worked for me, socialised with had a gun or guns. To hunt, for “self defence” or just target practice at the range. Every town has a range, or five.

Even the most left wing person I knew, a foreign languages teacher who spent many years in Europe, she had guns.

It’s an odd thing to get your head around, very much one of the largest causes of “culture shock” moving there.

I like target sports, I have bows here, so when offered an afternoon at the range by friends, I would go along.

It’s true. There is no segment of society that doesn’t own guns here and the gun nut (the scary types) are still quite small as a percentage. It’s as normal as owning a TV or a stereo here. I own a .22 rifle, 2 air rifles, a shotgun, and two bows (one compound and one recurve). I don’t hunt but I do like target shooting. And I have no urge to walk around with a gun on me, nor be around people who do and I don’t pretend that having the guns around makes me safer. In fact, I keep them at my brother’s house as he has a proper safe. I do keep the air rifles and bows at my place, though.

My brother and sister in law live in Virginia. They’ve gone the whole shebang with yankeeism (they’re both English born) . Big fuck off truck, 2off, pistols, rifles and shotguns coming out the wazoo. They bought my 12 year old niece a rifle Christmas just gone.

Guns are heavily glamorised in fiction and especially films. I don’t find them cool though personally but understand that the image portrayed just reinforces the acceptability in some societies and social groups.